Edward T. Conroy Memorial Scholarship Program

To be eligible for the Edward T. Conroy Memorial Scholarship Program, you must be a Maryland resident at the time of application and enroll at a two-year or four-year Maryland college/university, as a full-time or part-time, degree-seeking undergraduate or graduate student or attend a private career school. Also, you must be:

-The son, daughter, stepchild, or the surviving spouse (who has not remarried) of a member of the United States Armed Forces who died as a result of military service or who suffered a service-connected 100 permanent disability as result of military service

-A veteran who suffers a service-connected disability of 25 percent or greater, as a result of military service, and has exhausted or is no longer eligible for federal veterans' educational benefits

-The son, daughter, stepchild, or surviving spouse of a victim of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks who died as a result of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, the attack on the Pentagon in Virginia, or the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 in Pennsylvania

-A POW/MIA of the Vietnam Conflict or their son, daughter, or stepchild and was a resident of this State at the time the person was declared to be a prisoner of war or missing in action

-The son, daughter, stepchild, or surviving spouse (who has not remarried) of a state or local public safety employee or volunteer who died in the line of duty or who was 100 percent disabled in the line of duty

-A state or local public safety employee or volunteer who was 100 percent disabled in the line of duty

-A veteran, as defined under 9-901 of the State Government Article, Annotated Code of Maryland, who either suffers a service-connected disability of 25 percent or greater and has exhausted or is no longer eligible for federal veterans' educational benefits

-The son, daughter, stepchild, or surviving spouse (who has not remarried) of a school employee who, as a result of an act of violence either died in the line of duty or sustained an injury in the line of duty that rendered the school employee 100 percent disabled

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